(ANSA) - LJUBLJANA, MAY 19 - The Museum of smuggling has been inaugurated in Prestava, a village near Nova Gorica, in the premises that once housed the customs office at the border between Italy and Slovenia, then part of Yugoslavia. The museum's director, Vladimir Perunicic, explained at a press conference that, in the exhibition rooms, the atmosphere that reigned along this border area will be reconstructed thanks to archive images. Especially in the years immediately after the end of the second world war, the inhabitants of this area tried to improve their standard of living by smuggling goods between the two countries. The Museum of Smuggling is part of a border museum project that aims to renovate the sites of memory, such as the Military Tower of Vertoiba (Vrtojba), the Nova Gorica railway station, and the Permanent Memory Collection located in the cemetery area of Gorizia (Italy). Thanks to the bilateral collaboration between Italy and Slovenia, the future goal of the promoters is to connect the four museums by a path and a cycle path. (ANSA).